ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 795, 16 March 1853, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The steam ship Pacific arrived at Liverpool on the same day, with dates from New York to the 2nd of October. She had on board 420,000 dollars in specie. The General Screw Company's steamer Calcutta was to sail from Plymouth on the 35th of October, with the mails for the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritus,CeyloD, &c M taking out in gold and silver specie £100,000,desides a full cargo, and 77 passengers. The Times 1 city article says the new line of screw steamers to be started by the Cunard Company, to run between Liverpool and Cbagres, via New York, had just been advertised. The fleet is to consist of six vessels, each of froml,sOO to 2,000 toes burthen, and between 300 and 400 horse-power, tnd the names are to be the Andes, the Alps, the Taurus, the Etna, the Jura, and the Caucasus, T\ro or three of them are already launched, and the first was to sail on the Bth of December, 'At the commencement they are to perform onfy monthly trips, but are ultimately to sail twice a month, on the alternate Wednesdays, from Liverpool, when there is no Collins steamer to New York. The detention at New York is to be as short as possible, and it v contemplated that the entire passage from Liver} 00l to Chagres, calling also at Jamaica, will be performed in 18 to 20 days. The Times of the samft date has the following telegraphed communication from Pl/raoatb, dated 3 o'clock p.m. on the 12th, respecting the second accident which had occurred to the Australian mail steamer, Melbourne :—": — " The fi'elbour,ie, mail steamer, having made good her defects, was to have sailed this morning for her destination, but in getting under way in the llSr+QaZe (his morning with the ebb tide, she ran bet veea two hulks, and fooled one of them, the carried fway her jibboom, cathead, and anchor, let her chain cable run out, broke her boat d«vits, and did other damage, which will causa further detention to the ship." J